Target Earth
by Sherman A. Rose
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Actor: Kathleen Crowley, Richard Denning, Richard Reeves, Robert Roark, Virginia GreyDirector: Sherman A. Rose
Brand: Target
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Vci Video
Movie Reviews of Target Earth
Movie Review: Solid "B" Sci-Fi Thriller
Summary: 3 Stars
In TARGET EARTH, director Sherman Rose presents an effective thriller that combines a creepy atmosphere of an uncertain menace with a resonant cry of existential loneliness. The first half is a powerful indictment of how people erect walls of solitude around themselves. A recent widower (Kathleen Crowley) awakens in a hotel room after what we later learn is a suicide attempt brought on by guilt over her causing a car accident that killed her husband. At the same time, Frank (Richard Denning) has been mugged and wanders the city in a daze. Both realize that the city has been evacuated. They meet and must learn to relate to each other before they can comprehend the crunching loneliness surrounding them. They meet a quarreling couple (Richard Reeves and Virginia Grey) who see their enforced solitude as an unexpected opportunity to get gloriously drunk. None of them has any clear idea about what has happened. They barely comprehend in rational terms the events leading up to this latest event. Until this point, TARGET EARTH works well as a study in enforced isolation, one that would later be used more than once in a future TWILIGHT ZONE episode. Then director Rose takes the film into the realm of 50s type science fiction. A newspaper headline tells them that "invaders" of an unknown type have attacked the city. As they walk the city, they see robots patrolling the streets with apparent orders to blast humans on sight with death rays. The second half devolves into a standard shoot-em-up with scientists led by veteran character actor Whit Bissel as a scientist seeking a means to defeat the invaders who come from Venus. The military interaction between robot and humanity is both predictable and vaguely reminiscent of the urban guerilla warfare that had been raging in Europe just ten years earlier. TARGET EARTH at least starts well before dissolving into a well-trod goo that even then had been a staple of the genre. Still, it is worth a view.
Summary of Target Earth
A large city has been completely evacuated. An alien force of robots has invaded the city and is destroying all mankind! Frank (Richard Denning) and a handful of strangers wake up to the empty city and band together. Not only must they escape the robot patrols, but also they must contend with a psychotic killer amongst them. All the while scientists are racing against the clock to save earth from annihilation. Based on the short novel, The Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman. Bonus Features: Commentary by Herman Cohen| Video Tribute to Producer Herman Cohen| Original theatrical trailer| Digitally Re-mastered| Anamorphic Widescreen - Enhanced for 16x9 monitors| Actor Bios| 3-D Motion Menus| Scene Selection| Booklet Insert| Trailers. Specs: DVD9; Dolby Digital Mono; 75 minutes; B&W; 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1954; SRP - $9.99.Kids & Family DVD Video
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